ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,300, issued on July 15, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Nested entropy encoding" was invented by Yeping Su (Camas, Wash.) and Christopher A. Segall (Camas, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improving coding decoding efficiency of video by providing a syntax modeler, a buffer, and a decoder. The syntax modeler may associate a first sequence of symbols with syntax elements. The buffer may store tables, each represented by a symbol in the first sequence, and each used to associate a respective symbol in a second sequence of symbols with encoded data. The decoder decodes the data into a bitstr...